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Ege University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Izmir, Turkey
BMC Surgery 2007, 7:7 doi:10.1186/1471-2482-7-7Published: 7 June 2007
Currently, portal hypertension is still big problem for the patients with serious liver diseases. Variceal bleeding is one of the most important complications of portal hypertension. In case of failure of endoscopic and combined medical treatments, surgical decompressive shunts are required. We emphasized an alternative splenorenal shunt procedure using adrenal vein as a conduit.
Case presentation
A 26-year-old male suffered from recurrent variceal bleeding was considered for surgical therapy. Although we planned to perform a distal splenorenal shunt procedure, it was observed to be difficult. Therefore left adrenal vein was used as a conduit between left renal vein and splenic vein after splenic artery was ligated. He did well and was discharged from the hospital on the postoperative day 6. In the follow up period for nine months, endoscopic and ultrasonographic examinations were normal.
We concluded that, in case of failure to perform distal splenorenal shunt due to technical problems, alternative porto-systemic shunt procedure using the adrenal vein as a vascular conduit can be safely employed.


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Continuously, Priest stays striking electrifying knowledge through the mic that short circuits the simple minded fools in the industry. Priest remains on another skyline raining mental gems of spiritual content to feed the seeds onward to the next future. He is in this celestial fight to drop jewels over the sacrilege sold out industry poison that the average youngster drinkth to sleep. Not knowing that the poison industry hip hop is routing their core, these kids grow up hating knowledge and everything dealing with the knowledge of self, so they become products of the beast, thinking that the thug mentality will set them free and get them paid withs material and girls instead of the reality. The black male maintains the highest numbers in prison. For the majority, education is the only true way out of this trap and Priest got that food for your mind.
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Taylor Swift rolls with the best — meaning she has lots of friends in high places to wish her a 23rd birthday. So before the singer celebrates her b-day on Thursday (December 13) by debuting her "I Knew You Were Trouble." video on MTV at 4:40 p.m. ET, here's what fellow musicians had to say to Taylor.
"She's only 23?" Fun. asked MTV News, struck by Swift's youthful glow. Alex Clare had the same thoughts, joking that she looks a lot younger.
When others heard it was TSwift's big day, they decided to give her some love too… and some playful prods.
"Maybe people will be nice to you in the future and you can write happy records about them," Clare said with a smirk.
Getting Taylor a 23rd BDay gift? Buzzworthy's got purr-fect, Cat-themed ideas for Swifties!
Imagine Dragons and Of Monsters and Men joined in on the fun and perhaps got a bit too creepy, ("I took a celebrity bus tour and they told me where you lived…") while Jason Mraz shared some heartfelt remarks for Taylor.
"We honor you, cherish you, relish you, admire you, each and every day are inspired by you. Happy birthday," Mraz said eloquently.
"She's probably the hardest working people in show business," Fun.'s Jack Antonoff said. Bandmate Andrew Dost chimed in, "She works so hard. She deserves it." Neon Trees gave simple well-wishes, while one-time collaborator B.o.B showed his pride and excitement for the Red singer's achievements.
"Taylor Swift, happy birthday," said B.o.B, who once teamed up with Swift for "Both of Us." "Congratulations on all your success. I ordered a Papa John's pizza, and I saw her on my box and I was like, this is great. This makes my pizza that much better."
In the end, Passion Pit hoped for the country star's well-being in her 23rd year.
"Let's wish her some luck in her love life," they said. The guys from Passion Pit may be referring to Taylor's history with boyfriends. She admittedly says she falls for bad boys, which is the premise of her new video. She teased the clip on "The Big & Best of 2012″ on Wednesday.
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"We knew we wanted it to be some sort of corruption — good girl is living her life, going about her, you know, daily life and all of sudden she runs into this force. This guy is just like a force," Swift told MTV News. "She'll do anything to fit into his world, including change everything about herself."
After the video premieres at 4:40 p.m. ET on MTV, it will go into rotation and will be available on demand at TaylorSwift.MTV.tv.
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HOOKSETT — As Hooksett School Board members continue to explore options for Hooksett's long-term high school future, they've agreed to seek short-term solutions with both the Manchester School District and Pinkerton Academy.
Shortly after voters rejected a 10-year pact with Pinkerton at the March school district elections, Superintendent Charles Littlefield was directed by board members to reach out to Pinkerton officials to determine if they'd be amenable to extending the one-year tuition agreement for 2014-15 to current seventh graders as well. Littlefield said both sides recently met to begin negotiating a potential one-year extension to the current deal.
"We've had an initial meeting with Pinkerton and have planned a subsequent meeting with them, as well as a similar meeting with Manchester to come in the near future," said Littlefield. "Right now, it's very early. We're not in long-term discussions with anybody, but it appears both Manchester and Pinkerton may be agreeable to (shorter options) for the time being."
The school board has also reached out to Manchester Superintendent Debra Livingston for an update on Queen City schools, according to school board member John Lyscars.
The board's next meeting is this coming Tuesday, and a special meeting has been scheduled for June 24.
"It's dedicated just for high school discussion," said Littlefield. "There's still a lot of work to be done in the development of a high school plan, but they are also dealing with other business as well ... so the board felt it would be appropriate to schedule this special meeting with the sole focus on high school discussion as we continue through this process."
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It seems as though the New York Jets are trying a new tactic in the lead up to games against the Patriots. They are being complimentary and keeping the bulletin board material to a minimum. It doesn't seem right and worries me a little. Could the Jets actually sneak up on the Patriots?
The Jets have been in the news for only a couple reasons this year: Rex Ryan's weight loss, Tim Tebow and the team's poor play. All season the Jets have been talked about as a walking dead team that should just pack it in and start Tebow. The only thing wrong with that is the fact that they have the same record as the other teams in their division. Less hype in this case could be a negative for the Patriots.
Overall, the Patriots have more talent than the Jets especially with their injuries to key players. But I have said that same thing about the Cardinals and Seahawks. Hopefully, the Patriots can see that this game is incredibly important in winning the division and getting a decent seed in the playoffs.
The Patriots seem to be set up to have a big win against their division rival. The Patriots have decided advantages when the Patriots run as the Pats are ranked 4th in rushing yards and the Jets are ranked 28th in opponents' rushing yardage. Secondly, the Patriots rank 5th in opponents' rushing yardage, while the Jets are ranked 15th in rushing. The Patriots should be able to have a good pass-run balance this week. Stevan Ridley could end up having a big game.
The Patriots pass defensive is dismal as we all know but so is the Jets pass offense. It currently ranks 30th in the NFL. One of the keys that I see for this week is keeping an eye on Tim Tebow. He could line up anywhere on the field. There has been a lot of talk of having him play running back this week. My key concern would be trick plays, and wildcat situations. The Jets offense doesn't have the weapons to throw deep on the weak Patriots secondary like other teams have done.
On paper, the Patriots should win this game going away. I still see this game being won by the Patriots but it will be a 10-point margin of victory. Patriots 31, Jets 21
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This hotel opened in september 2010 and is perfectly located in the city center. The beautiful facade towards Gustav Adolf Torg is originally from the turn of the last century and with it's unique architecture it contributed to the nickname "The Little Riviera". Behind this classic front you will find a completely newly built, modern hotel of the highest standards. The 116 rooms are tastefully decorated to live up to the demands of the modern business or leisure traveler. Air conditioning in all rooms provides comfort throughout the year and the hotel gym and relaxation area offer recreation after a hard day of work or play.
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There are stronger healers.
they heal 2 or 3 targets each turn (depends on evo level) and heal for more HP than chaplain.
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Obama Camp Doesn't Want General-Election Voters To Forget Primary Romney
When Mitt Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom indicated with his famous (or infamous) Etch-A-Sketch simile that the former Massachusetts governor would reset his campaign strategy and message after the Republican primaries in order to appeal to general-election voters, Democrats said they planned to make that shift difficult if not impossible for the presumptive GOP nominee.
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Some Judges have simply aligned with the Cultural Revolutionaries who seek to remake the West. They have now joined with others in the executive and legislative branch in misusing their delegated authority in the United States of America. They pay little attention to the Constitution of the United States. They pay less to the Natural Moral Law which informed it. They have decided they are the new arbiters of what is now to be considered "moral"; the interpreters of what is acceptable and thus the detrminers of what is legal in a culture which has rejected the existence of objective truths by rejecting the very existence of a Natural Moral Law
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Keywords: Judicial imperialism, Justice Kennedy, Roe v Wade, Casey v Planned Parenthood, Liberty Counsel, persecution, change therapy, Keith A Fournier
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - I just ended a phone call with a good man whom I deeply respect. He is a courageous Evangelical Protestant Christian leader and a gutsy constitutional lawyer who is unafraid to stand up to the new Caesar in any courtroom at any level. His name is Mat Staver and he is the founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.
Today he was, to use an old expression, "down in the dumps".
Sadly, an important legal case in which he was involved, one which sought to protect the rights of Christians who struggle with same sex attraction and want to obtain counseling to help them, went south at the Appellate level. An arrogant group of judges sought to close the door to this important counseling through a misuse of their authority which, in effect, decided it can no longer be used by those who want it, because that Court said so.
I am writing this article as a private citizen. I will also be blunt. Some Judges have simply aligned with the Cultural Revolutionaries who seek to remake the West. They have now joined with others in the executive and legislative branch in misusing their delegated authority in the United States of America. They pay little attention to the Constitution of the United States. They pay less to the Natural Moral Law which informed it.
They have decided they are the new arbiters of what is now to be considered "moral"; the interpreters of what is acceptable and thus the determiners of what is considered legal in a culture which has rejected the existence of objective truths by rejecting the very existence of a Natural Moral Law, and the indispenable foundation it must provide to the positive law, if it is to be just. As my Orthodox priest friend, Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse predicted with prophetic eloquence in his article Homosexual Marriage at the Dusk of Liberty.
"The arrogation of authority by the State to define what kind of relationships are morally licit as well as the employment of the machinery of the State to enforce the policies that flow from it will justify an encroachment into personal life seldom seen in human history."
To arrogate something is to make unfounded claims concerning it. These unelected Black Robed arbiters of a new cultural order now claim that they are now the source of law, not the interpreters of its proper application. They have arrogated authority which was never given to them. They have moved beyond legal positivism, the judicial theory which essentially claimed that the law is what judges say it is, into judicial imperialism.
Many have even jettisoned any pretense of reliance on stare decisis, or past legal precedent, in their judicial opinions. How else can one explain the opinion of the US Supreme Court redefining marriage on its own authority in US v Windsor? I wrote on the case and its effects in Marriage Loses: US Supreme Court Holds Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional, Dismisses Prop 8
That opinion was no surprise to most Court observers. It was also no surprise to those who have been praying and working to stem the decline of a Nation which has lost its moral compass. Probably the clearest example of the reality of judicial imperialism is found in the phrase used by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in his abysmal opinion in Planned Parenthood v Casey.
That horrid, vacuous opinion simply upheld Roe v Wade, with no basis in law, through an improper reading of past precedent, a denial of medical fact and a rejection of true morality. He simply solemnly decreed from the bench that a new definition of liberty was to be implemented going forward: "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life." What does that mean? Where did this Justice of the US Supreme Court derive the authority to redefine the very idea of liberty and then compel us all to accept it?
He then used that incomprehensible phrase as a pretended basis for his decision to uphold the profane claim that a woman has a 'right' to take the life of the child in her womb for any reason. He swept away with the true Right, the Right to Life of that child who is killed in every procured abortion, with a raw abuse of judicial power. Sadly, he convinced enough of his colleagues to join in this perfidy. The results have not only continued the horror of abortion on demand, they have opened the door to a myriad of bad Court decisions and the continuing decline of a Nation based upon a flawed view of the nature of liberty and the obligations which it entails.
Fr Johannes also warned of some further consequences occasioned by this cultural slide into nihilism: "Furthermore, the ground is being tilled for the persecution of Christianity because Christians, by the mere fact that they believe in God, testify allegiance to an authority to which even the State must be subject. The State will necessarily refuse that reasoning because it strikes at the heart of its arrogation of moral authority.
"In the long run, Christians won't be prosecuted for objecting to homosexual marriage as such. They will be prosecuted for denying that the State has the power to define what is morally licit under the legal rubric of civil rights."
The early Christians were persecuted for Odium Generis, a political crime against the State. The phrase literally means hatred of the human race. In an age of relativism - a philosophy which claims 'your truth is not the same as my truth' - our culture denies the existence of any objective truth. That leaves no sure foundation upon which to ground our lives - individually, as families, or as a society.
Our Nation has lost its moral compass and is rushing head first into a new form of slavery. We teeter on the verge of moral and social collapse. There simply IS a moral foundation to a free society because there is a moral foundation to freedom itself. Freedom is never increased by choosing against what is true and good. Sadly, many are smiling in the descent, actually thinking they are being liberated.
This assessment of our current state as a culture is not meant to be alarmist or mean-spirited. It is simply an acknowledgement of where we stand. The real question now becomes, how shall we respond? As Christians, we must become the Way to true freedom for those who are rushing into the shackles of their own making by rejecting the very existence of moral truth.
However, we must also recognize what lies ahead in the demands of the hour in which we live. We must steel ourselves by prayer and preparation, and offer ourselves to the Lord for His continuing redemptive mission. We must also be ready to suffer persecution.
Men and women of this age have, in the words of the Apostle Paul "exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever!" (Romans 1:25) However, as Christians we proclaim, as we always have, there is truth, it can be known, and choosing to follow it is the only true path to authentic human freedom, happiness, social well being and human flourishing.
We go even further, we claim that any Nation which hopes to flourish must secure its social foundations upon that truth or it will deteriorate from within. Our proclamation of this message is often experienced by those who have exchanged truth for a lie, as, at best, annoying - and, at worst, it becomes the cause for consternation and conflict. It always brings a reaction. Get ready; we are only at the early stages of the reaction.
The God who is the source of truth has revealed truth to all men and women because He loves us. He wants us all to experience the fullness of life. This truth has been written on the human heart and is revealed by the Natural Moral Law accessible to all men and women through the exercise of right reason.
However, when men and women turn away from this truth, they reject right reason, and they lose their capacity for seeing it at all and experiencing its liberating effects. Instead, they follow deception and lose their freedom. They say, "We do not need God" or "We do not need truth" and devolve into idolatry saying, "We create our own truth" and "We are our own god".
Out of His infinite love, God sent us His Son in whom the fullness of truth is revealed to free us from our own proclivity to such deception. The One who is Truth is made accessible for us all to embrace. He alone removes the obstacles we face in embracing that truth by dealing definitively with the effect of sin. In Him we can be re-created and find the Way of life for which we long.
This Son of God, the Savior of the whole human race, still proclaims to the men and women of this age, "and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." (John 8:32) In fact, His words echo eternal through all time, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life." (John 14:6)
Freedom is not about the fact that we can choose but about how and what we do choose. That is what truly matters. Authentic Human Freedom will never be found in decisions that are made against God and against the Natural Moral Law. The struggle of this age is between what Pope Emeritus Benedict once called anarchic freedom and authentic human freedom. The future of the West hangs in the balance.
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Salon.com calls Karen Armstrong the most "interesting religion writer today." It was her 1993 release A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that first won her acclaim. Armstrong's presentation today is based on her latest title, The Case for God. Starting with the Paleolithic Age and moving to the present, she reveals mankind's unending pursuit of a higher power. 7:30 p.m. Wortham Center, 500 Texas. For information, call 832-251-0706 or visit www.progressiveforumhouston.org. $14 to $74.
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Family-Favorite Cheeseburger Pasta Recipe
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I created this recipe to satisfy a cheeseburger craving. What a delicious, healthy classic! —Raquel Haggard, Edmond, Oklahoma
- 1-1/2 cups uncooked whole wheat penne pasta
- 3/4 pound lean ground beef (90% lean)
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) no-salt-added diced tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons dill pickle relish
- 2 tablespoons prepared mustard
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 1 teaspoon steak seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 3/4 cup shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
- Chopped green onions, optional
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Drain pasta; add to meat mixture.
- Stir in the tomatoes, relish, mustard, ketchup, steak seasoning and seasoned salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle with cheese. Remove from the heat; cover and let stand until cheese is melted. Garnish with green onions if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Family-Favorite Cheeseburger Pasta in Healthy Cooking August/September 2009, p65
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Two young men who were once "like brothers" are now on opposite sides at the trial involving the 2007 shooting death of package store owner Jared Silva.
Cosmo Frieson is testifying today at the trial of Gary Clarke, who is accused of shooting Silva during the course of a robbery outside Jared's Packy on Ocean Avenue in New London.
Frieson, 22, is implicating Clarke, 24, under an agreement with State's Attorney Michael L. Regan in which Frieson, who admits taking part in the attempted robbery of Silva, would serve only up to 20 years in prison. Clarke, charged with felony murder, murder and attempted robbery, has pleaded not guilty and opted for a trial.
Taking the witness stand this morning in his neon orange jumpsuit, Frieson rocked back and forth in his seat and spoke softly as he answered a series of questions about the crime. He said Clarke, who had a child with Frieson's sister, planned the robbery because the sister was about to lose her apartment. Frieson said that he and Clarke met up at the convenience store at Bank Street and Ocean Avenue and planned to rob a convenience store further down Ocean Avenue, but that they decided to rob Jared's instead, since it was too cold to walk further.
Frieson said he provided Clarke with a gun that he had stolen from a car, and that Clarke approached Silva with the gun as Silva walked out of the store.
"He told him, 'Don't move,' '' Frieson testified. "Jared turned around and started fighting."
Frieson said it looked "like the gun was coming up to Gary," so he ran up and punched Silva. He said Silva fell on his back and he ran.
"I heard a gunshot," he said.
He and Gary met up a few houses away and Clarke realized he had dropped his cell phone, Frieson said. Clarke gave Frieson the gun and his jacket and went back to retrieve the phone, he said. In crime scene photos viewed by the jury last week, a cell phone was lying on the ground, in a pool of blood, between Silva's arm and torso.
Frieson said he took the gun to the house of Tyshaun Smith, who lived a few doors down from the package store, and hid it in a couch. Later, he met up with Clarke at Clarke's apartment across town.
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GPT fdisk is a disk partitioning tool loosely modeled on Linux fdisk, but used for modifying GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks. The related FixParts utility fixes some common problems on Master Boot Record (MBR) disks.
- Edit GUID partition table (GPT) definitions in Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, or Windows
- Convert MBR to GPT without data loss
When attempting to harvest from a CSW repository that follows the ebrim.compusult profile, the harvesting tool is missing the definition files and backend code needed to send and receive communcation from that repository. This patch offers a new build of the Harvesting Tool, where this problem is fixed and ebrim.compusult CSW repositories can be successfully harvested.
It's an easy to use software application that's designed to overcome the 2.2TB limitation of Windows systems. With the Hitachi GPT Disk Manager you can tap into the full capacity and power of your Hitachi ultra-capacity drive as one massive data drive without having to install new hardware.
HDClone is a universal tool for cloning storage media on hardware sector level. HDClone manages many cases of application, for example hard disk migration, backups, creating file images and sector-by-sector copies. This allows HDClone to create copies or file images of storage media regardless of the respective partitioning scheme, the used file system and the installed operating system.
With Disk Director, you can maximizing disk use and data safety, you can easier to create hard disk partitions or resize, move or merge partitions without data loss. Acronis Disk Director includes powerful new features like Windows 7 support, Dynamic Disk and GPT disk support, spanning a volume across multiple disks and much more.
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This partition manager program can be used to resize, move, merge, and split partitions and convert FAT file system to NTFS and back. It supports MBR & GPT disks, hardware RAID drives, and removable devices. This program can also work on Linux partitions.
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EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a free hard disk partition manager. This program can create, delete or resize partitions on your hard drives. It can create FAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3 or even unformatted partitions in the unallocated space of a hard drive., as well as resize, move, defragment them, and perform operations over entire hard disks.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of William V. Corr, Executive Director, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids:
Sounding an alarm that should be heard in Congress and statehouses across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today that the adult smoking rate in the United States was at a standstill for the second year in a row in 2006 after several years of steady declines. The CDC reported that 20.8 percent of U.S. adults smoked in 2006, about the same as the 20.9 percent who smoked in 2004 and 2005. This stall follows a 15.4 percent decline in adult smoking between 1997 and 2004 (from 24.7 percent to 20.9 percent).
Youth smoking declines have similarly stalled in recent years after declining significantly since the mid-1990s, and 23 percent of high school students still smoke, according to the most recent CDC data.
It is troubling news for America's health that progress has stalled in reducing tobacco use, the nation's number one preventable cause of death. It is also inexcusable that elected leaders have not done more given the overwhelming scientific evidence of what works to reduce tobacco use among both children and adults. Just this year, landmark reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Sciences and the President's Cancer Panel have agreed on the steps that Congress and the states must take to significantly reduce and eventually eliminate the tobacco epidemic:
-- Congress should enact legislation granting the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration authority over tobacco products, including the authority to
regulate the contents of tobacco products and to stop tobacco marketing
that appeals to children and misleads consumers. With this legislation,
Congress can crack down on some of the most harmful tobacco industry
practices that have undermined efforts to reduce tobacco use. It is also
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A recent issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS had a lovely article on building a purple martin house. Much time, labor, and money were involved for a very
professional-looking finished product.
Now here's a very
acceptable, much cheaper, and adorable substitute. It
requires three pieces of scrap plywood at least
3/8" thick but not more than 3/4" inch thick, a nice
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diameter, a tall white plastic kitchen garbage bag, a
couple of small hinges, bits of leftover exterior paint,
and ten tall juice cans with both ends cut off.
Be sure the
can edges are smooth and stack them on their sides in a
pyramid (see figure 1). Tape them together. Cut a front and
back for your house to fit over the ends of the cans, plus
a bit more, from your exterior plywood. These should be cut
as triangles with gently rounded corners, or, if you
prefer, cut the front in the shape of a house with a
chimney. Cut a base of plywood an inch or two bigger than
the bottom of your pyramid.
Take your front piece of plywood and cut entry holes for
each can. Drill 1/4" holes between each can-front and
back-for ventilation. Nail or screw the front securely onto
the base, back an inch or two from the edge (see figure 2).
Attach the back to the base with the hinges so you can drop
it down to clean it out (see figure 3). Be sure to cut your
front and back an inch or two taller than your pyramid of
cans so you can run your twig or dowel front to back to
serve as both a landing rod for the birds and to hold the
house together at the top. To do this, drill a hole big
enough to poke the twig through at the top of the back.
Glue or screw the twig securely to the top of the front.
Drill a hole through the twig near the back end, so you can
peg it securely. (You can hang the peg on the back of your
birdhouse so it doesn't get lost.)
Wrap your cans securely
as one unit with the plastic garbage bag and place it on
the base, wedged between the front and back. Mount where
and how you please. Paint to suit your fancy. Cheap, easy,
fun-and the birds seem to like it!
Now, can someone help
me? I want to know how to make the old-fashioned, homemade
baby chicken waterers with the glass jar. Sure would
appreciate it.
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Effects of AFPNN5353 on the [Ca2+]c response to mechanical perturbation. Twelve h old A. niger cultures were treated with 20 μg/ml AFPNN5353 for 60 min before stimulation by mechanical perturbation (addition of 100 μl Vogels medium). The [Ca2+]c signature was monitored for 5 min. Values represent the average of six samples.
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APP OF THE DAY: Twitter for iPad
Whilst we've featured iPad apps in the past on App of The Day that involve Twitter, such as the brilliant Flipboard, we haven't yet featured the official Twitter app for the iPad.
But come on, cut us some slack - it's only been available since the end of last week.
So after almost a week of playing on the new app we can now proudly bring to you, our honest feelings regarding...
Twitter for iPad
- Format
- iPad
- Price
- Free
- Where
- iTunes
Sure, there are a couple of decent free Twitter clients for the iPad (most notably Tweet Deck), but none of them feel iPad native.
There isn't a Twitter app that really takes advantage of the iPad's screen real estate and multi-touch gesture support.
Until now that is.
The official Twitter app is nothing short of brilliant. Twitter may have just killed its own website by releasing this app into the world.
First up, it isn't just a timeline viewer - there's much more to it than that. Your lists are present, as are searches and trends, and the app even supports multiple accounts.
Even typing a tweet on the official app feels and looks nice. Tweets are composed via a notepad looking platform with a nice friendly and clear font.
But it's within the tweet timelines that this app really proves its worth. If a tweet contains content such as a link to a website or a picture, then simply tapping the tweet will bring up the content in a separate pane. You can then simply slide this pane back out of view when you're done with it - or leave it hovering at the side if you'll want to refer to it later.
A double finger drag on a tweet opens up the conversation thread, making it much easier to follow one theme without scrolling up and down your timeline.
You can also expand a tweet with two fingers to reveal the tweeter's details and pinch to zoom back in.
Selected tweets are frozen at the top of the timeline, again making it easier to refer to them later on.
All the usual Twitter that you'd expect is on board as well, including the ability to add favourite tweets, retweet, direct message and so on.
Basically, it's a fully comprehensive Twitter client from the people who know best (or should know best at least).
It's out now and it's free. What are you waiting for?
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In my den there is a picture of me with Dustin Hoffman and a tall, white-haired, handsome man who at the time was head of production at Columbia Pictures. His name was John Veitch, and in 1982 when the picture was taken, we were standing in the lobby of the Odeon at Leicester Square in London before the screening for the Royal Family of our film "Kramer vs. Kramer," starring Dustin and Meryl Streep.
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Democrats have invited more than two dozen religious leaders to pray or speak at their upcoming conventioin with a notable exception: DenverArchbishop Charles J. Chaput, a policy wonk and the leader of Colorado's largest religious denomination.
Several Catholics, including former Colorado state Sen. Polly Baca, "Dead Man Walking" author Sister Helen Prejean, social justice lobbyist Sister Catherine Pinkerton and Pepperdine University professor Douglas W. Kmiec, are on the program.
Organizers are also flying in Greek Orthodox Archbishop Demetrios from New York to give the opening prayer Wednesday.
But Archbishop Chaput's only contact with the convention has been a meeting with Leah Daughtry, chief executive officer of the convention and a Pentecostal pastor, and an invitation to attend the event as an observer.
Raymond Flynn, the Democratic mayor of Boston for 10 years before being named ambassador to the Vatican during the Clinton administration, said not inviting the archbishop to pray or speak was "a serious oversight" that Democratic leaders should correct.
"Chaput is one of the most respected leaders of the Catholic Church in America," he said. "His record is a strong commitment to social and economic justice and the principles of the Catholic faith. He's also a strong patriot.
"Pro-life Democrats who are proud Catholics like myself feel this is an insult to our values."
"The party," he added, "should be aware there are strong pro-life people who are politically successful."
Archbishop Chaput, the leader of 385,000 Catholics in the Denver area, said he was not taking the omission personally.
"I'm happy to see they are having prayer at their sessions," Archbishop Chaput said Monday, "and they have a right to choose whom they want to do that."
"Hopefully," he said of the Catholics attending the convention, "they will know being Catholic is more foundational to their identity than anything else."
Instead of following Monday night's opening ceremonies on TV, the archbishop will join Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, in a prayer vigil against abortion near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Stapleton, a Denver suburb.
Several spokesmen for the convention said they could not give a reason why the archbishop was not given a prominent role. Natalie Wyeth, press secretary for the convention's planning committee, said the archbishop had already informed them that he was too busy to attend.
The archbishop, who is not registered with any political party, is keenly interested in politics. His latest book, "Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life," was released last Tuesday.
In the book, the archbishop suggests that American Catholics have gotten too comfortable with the status quo and are morally indistinguishable from non-Catholics.
"I am trying to convince people they should not be embarrassed at being Catholic and not buy the supposedly American notion that people should shelve their faith when they enter the public square," he said.
The nation's 47 million Catholic voters "have historically belonged in huge numbers to the Democratic Party," he said. "They could have stood up in former years and demanded that abortion not be part of the platform, but they did not."
Considering that one-quarter of the U.S. Senate and a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court justices are Catholic, "you'd think that on issues like abortion," he said, "the country would be standing in a different place than it does."
He added that he was asked by several Catholic politicians to write the book.
"I am tired of people telling religious folks to be quiet in the public square because of constitutional questions of separation of church and state," he said. "I hope this encourages people to become confident and active."


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Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly said the media has no business using the word "scandal" to describe the ongoing challenges to truth that are beating down the White House, the president and his administration these past weeks.
Instead, the issues plaguing the White House of late are just that — "issues" that need "to be addressed," he said, in Buzz Feed.
Specifically, Mr. Connolly was critical of how Republicans, and some in the media, were portraying the administration's reaction to the Sept. 11, 2012, terror attacks at America's facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that left four dead, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. He also decried how the last couple weeks' of administration scandals were being portrayed – like the Internal Revenue Service fiasco, and the Justice Department-Associated Press records' seizure, Buzz Feed reported.
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"I think when the media repeats the word 'scandals' you are repeating partisan lines," he said, Buzz Feed reported. "They are issues that have occurred that have to be addressed. I don't think they rise to the level of a scandal. We had a bunch of idiots at IRS in Cincinnati who didn't know how to aggregate a flood of tax-exempt applications … but this is not some major scandal in the order of magnitude like Watergate. That's absurd."
Mr. Connolly also described Benghazi as "a tragedy," but added that "it has no traction" and would soon fall under America's radar, Buzz Feed reported.
"They [Republicans] can continue to talk about it to feed their base, they forget we have a base too," Mr. Connolly said, in Buzz Feed. "Everytime they do that they are firing up our base too and alienating moderate and swing voters."
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